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This is demonstrating the Everyday Robotics (EDR) robot. EDR was the division/spinoff from Google X that was shut down this February [1]. In fact, this trash so
by AceJohnny2 4y ago
This is demonstrating the Everyday Robotics (EDR) robot. EDR was the division/spinoff from Google X that was shut down this February [1]. In fact, this trash sorting was the full-stack regression test!
I find it incredibly bizarre that the Google Brain folks are just now publishing EDR work.
I mean, I understand that writing and editing a paper for publishing is work, but this had been going on for a while at EDR, so: wow, does this not inspire confidence in Google's AI project pipeline.
Perhaps it's just One Last Hurrah from the people involved.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613214/everyday-robots-google-alphabet-shut-down https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613214/everyday-robots-...
- jimsimmons 4y agoSergey Levine publishes 80 papers a year. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t know about this project till yesterday night
- AceJohnny2 4y agoWhat's his modus operandi?
- jimsimmons 4y agotake a lot of hungry UCB students and put them with phds and postdocs in the lab. undergrads want a paper to apply to phd programs or ml roles. so a win-win for them. we get to deal with the papermill though
- zbrozek 4y agoHe was just down the hall from me when I was a freshman. I remember trying to play a 3D airship (modeled kind of like galleons?) cannon-fighting game he made for a graphics class. It was outrageously difficult and the AI would just crush any human player. If you end up reading this, hi there! Long time no see!
- andreyk 4y agoFrom what I hear Levine is a beast, super hard worker with incredible memory and thinking speed. So I would say he most likely is aware of all the stuff his name is on, at least at a high level. Especially this sort of big project.
- andreyk 4y agoMost if not all the research papers from EDR was co-authored with people from Google robotics, so it's not all that weird. I think at least some of the people from EDR wound up at Google robotics anyway.